In Search of Swallows and Amazons: Arthur Ransome's Lakelands

by RogerWardale (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2006

  $12.11

  Roger Wardale's 40-year search uncovers the secret locations featured in Arthur Ransome's original Swallows & Amazons adventures. Containing fully revised text and rare photographs to satisfy even the most avid reader of Swallows & Amazons , this book aims to give two-fold pleasure - enjoy the original stories, and...discover the farms, rivers, islands, towns and hills that formed their backdrop. It is abundantly illustrated with maps, sketches and more than fifty photographs to help identify the secret locations featured in the ever-popular series of books. Numerous quotations from Arthur Ransome support both text and photographs.

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $3.24

  Roger Wardale's 40-year search uncovers the secret locations featured in Arthur Ransome's original Swallows & Amazons adventures. Containing fully revised text and rare photographs to satisfy even the most avid reader of Swallows & Amazons , this book aims to give two-fold pleasure - enjoy the original stories, and...discover the farms, rivers, islands, towns and hills that formed their backdrop. It is abundantly illustrated with maps, sketches and more than fifty photographs to help identify the secret locations featured in the ever-popular series of books. Numerous quotations from Arthur Ransome support both text and photographs.